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I remember VB was also a bit of a casualty of the move to the .NET framework. Yeah they had later versions of VB with .NET support but it still never really em
by qbasic_forever 3y ago
I remember VB was also a bit of a casualty of the move to the .NET framework. Yeah they had later versions of VB with .NET support but it still never really embraced or thrived in the new ecosystem. In general RAD tooling kind of fell out of favor in the 2000s and never really recovered.
- qingcharles 3y agoOver the last 40 years I have programmed in practically every major language, yet VB.Net remains my all-time favorite for ease of development and code readability. I would still be writing in it today but there is really zero support now. A real shame.
- specialist 3y agoYes and: Visual Basic (and others) were unintentional victims of ODBC, the transition from workgroup-based to client-server.